There are several tests of connection: (a) is there an interface up? (ifconfig) (b) is it configured? (ifconfig) (c) is there a route from the system? (route) (d) is DNS working? (nslookup/dig) (e) is there a working route to and from some specific host? (ping) (f) does regular traffic to and from a...

The last Arachne release I can find was in 2013. (I seem to recall reading about some newer development on the bttr software forums, but could be mistaken.) Unfortunately, Arachne was a pain to get working under DOS. There was also a Linux version, based on SVGAlib. I never got it to build completel...

Well, I've been poking at bqc. So far, I've implemented _socketcall() (looking at musl src/internal/syscall.h to figure out how) and almost all the socketcall wrappers. I've also discovered a small (*cough*) problem. With GCC 5.3.x (stock for Alpine Linux) on i386 and the standard flags (-nostdlib ...

Alpine Linux Edge (development) used as a router, print server, and desktop. OpenRC for init, mdev for hotplugging, icewm for window manager... I use the linux-vanilla kernel, though it's decidedly second-tier to the linux-grsec package. To get X working, run setup-xorg, then add xinit, rxvt-unicode...

Well, I've been poking at bqc. So far, I've implemented _socketcall() (looking at musl src/internal/syscall.h to figure out how) and almost all the socketcall wrappers. I've also discovered a small (*cough*) problem. With GCC 5.3.x (stock for Alpine Linux) on i386 and the standard flags (-nostdlib -...

64 bit CPUs have been around for well over a decade now and it's tough to find a used PC that isn't 64 bit. Puppy has long catered to these older systems, but added support for things like PAE for newer systems. One of the biggest reasons we still use x86 is the extra bloat added for x86_64 just fo...

If I've read correctly, it only implements TLS using OpenSSL's crypto libraries.
It's less than 1/10 the size of OpenSSL's TLS implementation, but closer to a hundredth of the total size of OpenSSL.

A, then B . In one post. Give a summary of what to do, keep it as short as possible; then go through the details of why and how. It should have enough there that the OP can look at it if the short version doesn't work right, and a reader should be able to find the general principles that lead to the...

Standard permissions refer to one's ability to access the file. So, if you have execute permissions for a file, you can run it. The *process* will belong to you, if it is a regular file. However, read-write-execute permissions for "user", "group", and "other" only occup...

a complete statically compiled busybox system rings in at ~1mb. OTOH systemd provides at least an additional 1% functionality for only ... lets do the math: (Debian example: duplicate dependencies removed for brevity ... note the lack of a shell, and many other tools provided by busybox ... but tha...

I am working on those ... as to resource usage, I added lookup tables for the IMDCT cos function which can be enabled with the CFLAG -DIMDCT_NTABLES ... that reduces CPU usage to ~15% after initialization. Also need to set up a separate initialization function. Edit: I have updated https://github.c...

Having downloaded those recordings a while ago, I tried it out. Results: -Same errors when played without modification -id3 and id3tool don't recognize the id3 tags, but id3v2 can remove them. -mp3dec_opt plays the result nicely, at ~25% CPU on my 1.6GHz Atom N270. -mp3dec plays the result, but runs...

If you have a link to a mp3 that won't play, post it ... I'm really sick of /usr/share/audio/ivy.mp3 anyhow. I'm still planning to add id3 tag support (you can try using the id tag stripper from a few posts back ... which is where I will ultimately get the code from) ... you may be right about the ...

A late comment or two on http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00114 . * Alpine Linux also has an ARM flavor, built for the Raspberry Pi (not sure if it's armv6-hf or something lesser). * I'd be very interested in seeing an "Alpine Puppy"; if it would be helpful, I could package some of the...

Those ones might be fun, but 5/32? 17/64? And there's no 16 or 18 over 64 of course - you have to mentally convert things all the time... Seriously, disciple? Don't you know that's what your computer is using? It's a simple bit shift! :wink: :lol: I use Fahrenheit by preference, though I know Kelvi...

And for ps -ef (Snipping text) Thanks! :) I see no occurances of slmodemd, which is the service provided by sl-modem-daemon. #make sure it's in the right country: dpkg-reconfigure -plow sl-modem-daemon #do snd_*_modem /snd_intel8x0m get loaded? #if so, you could use slmodemd --alsa lsmod |grep snd

So I've not used a dialup modem on Linux myself, and it's been years since I encountered one. But I'm curious about this. * I presume that slamr is the right driver, and that it and ungrab_winmodem are being loaded in the correct order (dmesg might allow you to confirm that...) * I'm seeing referenc...

The thought that immediately crosses my mind is redirect printer to file, then print file. However, I'm sure there are some reasons that won't work. Off the top of my head, you'd probably need to empty and backup the file every print, and you'd have a rather complex/cludgy setup. General form of wha...

I was referring to button/key presses A netlink socket like udev uses will catch hotplug events ... example here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/pending/hotplug.txt I'm more wondering how to make X11 catch hotplugging (esp. devices appearing)...without depending on a particular hotplug helper. In parti...

FYI, I've written an experimental library intended to use as a fallback/replacement for some of the features libudev offers. Right now it only will map a device to a sysfs directory and get the PCI IDs if they're available. Source is over at https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev ; the first port of ...